“According to the research published by Hackmosphere, the technique works by avoiding the conventional execution path where applications call Windows API functions through libraries like kernel32.dll, which then forwards requests to ntdll.dll before making the actual system call to the kernel.”
Additional Information:
https://www.hackmosphere.fr/bypass-windows-defender-antivirus-2025-part-1/
https://www.hackmosphere.fr/bypass-windows-defender-antivirus-2025-part-2/
They also suggest organizations deploy additional security layers beyond Windows Defender, particularly solutions that can monitor behavior at the kernel level.
Anything like this for the typical home user?
Sure, bring back Crowdstrike, that went well…
Btw I wasn’t aware XOR was encrytion…
XOR cleartext once with a key you get ciphertext. XOR the ciphertext with the same key you get the original cleartext. At its core this is the way the old DES cipher works.
A bit of useful trivia: If you XOR any number with itself, you get all zeros. You can see this in practice when an assembly programmer XOR’s a register with itself to clear it out.
an x86 assembly programmer
Ftfy. not all CPUs have an xor register with itself instruction.
There are a lot more architectures than just x86 that are capable of XORing a register with itself (ie. ARM and RISC-V), and if you took OP to mean the accumulation register specifically, pretty much all CPUs going back as far as I can think have had that functionality.
Yes, but it’s not universal that xoring a register with itself is more performant than simply loading it with 0.
I never made that claim, nor did the person you corrected.
Yes, but that’s why x86 assembly programmers do it…
Btw I wasn’t aware XOR was encrytion…
It’s even better than ROT13, because you always need to apply ROT13 twice for getting the good results…
